Happy Bandcamp Friday everyone! nixienoise.bandcamp.com

Today I optimized my instrument tuner app/plugin from 101% cpu usage down to 18%. A productive day. Throttling, SIMD, and tuning UI updates were all game changers.

I spent way too long deciding not to use React Native for something I'm tinkering on.

After failing to overcome my web development burnout feelings, I’m instead setting up an online store for my plugin projects with PayHip.com. Not an ad, but they’ve got a nice minimal thing going on; a decent website builder; and reasonable prices.

I may have been cooking down some low hanging fruit this week. More info to come soon.

droning on and on for a while www.twitch.tv/nixienoise

It's almost #BandcampFriday. Check out my library of #ambient and #weird electronic #music! There's some new stuff in there too. nixienoise.bandcamp.com

It's almost #BandcampFriday. Check out my library of #ambient and #weird electronic #music! There's some new stuff in there too. nixienoise.bandcamp.com

The world is still, in fact, a vampire.

All right well. I think it's pretty safe to say I am significantly depressed. I am looking at all the s*** I have in my studio that I'm supposed to do videos on and all of it is either buggy, unfinished, or mediocre. I have completely lost any joy from interacting with music technology.

It's noise Monday. Streaming noisy ambient today. twitch.tv/nixienoise

Oof, strong Bay Area earthquake. Hope everyone’s ok!

Ugh, should my delay plugin strictly align itself to the grid, or just sorta hang out using BPM derived timings? Strict alignment seems lame, and extra work to implement.

New album will be called SUPERSTRUCTURES Rendering and final mixes now.

Sampler, to delay, to reverb. It's the natural order of things. Things that go bleep, bloop, etc.

One of these days I'll remember to post links to my music live streams on social media platforms.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

I've got a new experimental ambient drone album, out now! Happy #BandcampFriday! nixienoise.bandcamp.com/album/lost-f...

I was working on a sampler plugin earlier this year, but kinda fell out of love with the idea. I think I can circle back on it, and retool it as an interesting delay and microsound/granular effect instead. Something I'd be more interested in using day-to-day at least.

My ambient drone journey around the SF Bay Area turned two today! nixienoise.bandcamp.com/album/area

Now live on Twitch, trying to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in VCV Rack. It's the monthly Golden Shrimp Guild VCVRAID! twitch.tv/nixienoise

I’m this close to building an e-commerce platform where you own your data and it doesn’t suck. But then I remember building for the web still sucks, I don’t hate myself that much

To me, seeing someone announce art or good news during terrible times isn't like trying to sell balloons at a funeral, it's like getting hugged at that funeral. When maybe you didn't know how much you needed that hug. From anyone. Or everyone. Folks need all the soul fuel they can get.

feeling done in by the state of the world so i got drunk and made some 4-track synth-pop

I made my synth polyphonic, combining the architecture I'd already built with JUCE's poly synthesizer classes was easier than I expected. Lots of edge cases to fix though, especially if I don't want 16 voices to consume all the CPU. Eep!

drones, not drones sine tones, not sine tones mostly electronic music davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/odysse... music slow music microtonal music ambient music minimalism full digital discography 50% off #microtonal #justintonation #ambient

Mid-atlantic melodic #drone #ambient - these three new pieces are up on Bandcamp and other streaming places but #nospotify willowlaun.bandcamp.com/album/pre-ii... download codes: willowlaun.bandcamp.com/yum n8su-35ms wzhd-huyd cyec-jpnh su6c-yr5v sly4-bl78 pskq-wjpn 675j-c6hc uw76-wyqw xpm2-c3ks

🚨 STOP THE PRESSES 🚨 Someone in the Bay Area is daily driving a Mark VIII UTE! #weirdcarbs

I sold some more gear, so I did another Exit Interview! This time, I say farewell to, and have a final look at, the vintage digital cruft of the Kawai K4! www.etherdiver.com/2025/08/10/e... (Noteworthy: Bad Gear featured this synth this week!) @synthsky.bsky.social #synthsky #synthesizer #synth

Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music

Currently wondering if I should bolt on polyphony into my first VST synth. It’s a mono synth right now, somewhat intentionally. Would enough people be interested in that limitation?

coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/nostro... #nowplaying As far as I am concerned, this is THE album to reference when people ask “I want music to fall asleep to that sounds like a space ship”.

Currently wondering if I should bolt on polyphony into my first VST synth. It’s a mono synth right now, somewhat intentionally. Would enough people be interested in that limitation?

Generative ambient with Norns, Eurorack and MiniFreak. #ambient #synthsky

Playing some weird #AmbientMusic on stream while I’m at work. Newly monetized. All your pennies are belong to us. #BedroomProducer 🎶

The Novation Peak has excellent hands on controls - but I need more weirdness so I picked up the Sigabort editor and yeah - weirdness easily achieved!

Thanks for making another Bandcamp Friday wonderful for so many independent artists. Let's get back to that time when we valued our musicians and the music they make. Please support your local indie music scene.

Happy #BandcampFriday! I’m slowly working on some new material, but for now enjoy my collection if you haven’t already! nixienoise.bandcamp.com

I spent way too long trying to suffer through building a simple online store using JS frameworks. Nuxt is pretty good. None of it felt right. I’ve gone back to Rails and building a delightfully old school site instead, much quicker too.

Bring back röck döts.

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

New drone soundscape now up on the podcast! Episode 4. share.transistor.fm/s/da0a1e05

I decided to dabble with adding a reverb to my synth plugin. Now I find myself down a rabbit hole that could be hard to get out of. Oops.

Now live on Twitch, with some noise and drones and crunchy bits. twitch.tv/nixienoise

Ian McKellen's spoken-word bit of Invisible Light (Scissor Sisters, Glastonbury) ok all the things, right, but also REALLY USEFUL in teaching about what many think of as 'Shakespearean' delivery (really a very specific elocution training path) and popular music.

That feeling when a project finish line is in sight. A few things left to polish, but core feature set is there.

Announcing my new weekly podcast of drone/ambient music! Just wrapped up #3 - featuring the incredible Proteus sequencer in VCV Rack. dronescape.nixienoise.com #music #podcast #ambient #drone

Going live on Twitch for Golden Shrimp Guild’s third monthly VCV Raid! twitch.tv/nixienoise

My upcoming synthesizer VST plugin is almost feature complete. I’m excited to ship this thing! It’s also going to be an awesome foundation for some other synths I have in mind.